Aguinaldo Boulitreau Fragoso

Aguinaldo Boulitreau Fragoso (born March 3, 1907 in Recife , † March 18, 1978 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian diplomat who was ambassador to Argentina between 1958 and 1963 and ambassador to Portugal from 1964 to 1966 . As Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry, he was also acting Foreign Minister several times between August and September 1963, from October to November 1963 and between March and April 1964 .

Life

Aguinaldo Boulitreau Fragoso, son of the diplomat Luís Eulálio Fragoso and his wife Maria Luísa Boulitreau Fragoso, began his diplomatic career in 1934 as a third class consul in the office of Foreign Minister José Carlos de Macedo Soares . In 1936 he was promoted to consul second class and moved as second secretary to the representation in Switzerland and in 1937 as second secretary to the embassy in Peru . In 1938 he became Second Secretary at the Embassy in the USA and in 1940 was part of the delegation at the Second Inter-American Meeting of Foreign Ministers in Havana . In 1942 he returned to the Foreign Ministry and became an employee in the office of Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha and as such was in January 1943 Secretary of the Third Inter-American Meeting of Foreign Ministers in Rio de Janeiro , which is to the severance of diplomatic relations with the Axis powers Germany , Italy and Japan in Second World War went. In 1943 he was promoted to first secretary at the embassy in the United States and served as secretary general of the Brazilian delegation to the conference of Bretton Woods (1 to 22 July 1944), which after the Second World War to the Bretton Woods system called newly created international monetary order with exchange rate ranges.

In 1945 Fragoso was secretary of the delegation at the International Conference on War and Peace in Mexico City and at the San Francisco Conference (April 25 to June 26, 1945), which led to the creation of the United Nations . He was from 5 to 21 September 1945 also charge d'affaires of the Embassy in the United States and was in 1946 the delegation to the Consultative Committee on Emergency political defense in Montevideo , the consultant, he was in February 1947th In 1947 he was also assistant to the Secretary General of the Inter-American Conference for Peacekeeping and Security in Rio de Janeiro. In 1949 he was promoted to counselor at the embassy in Uruguay , but he returned a little later and became a second-class ministerial counselor, head of the staff department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1950 he became head of the protocol department in Itamarati , the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and as such also belonged to the Organizing Commission of the First Congress for the establishment of the Latin Union in Rio de Janeiro in 1951 . In 1952 he was also a member of the organizing commission for the VII Inter-American Assembly of Women, which was also held in Rio de Janeiro, and deputy delegate to the VII session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York City . In 1953 he took over the post of head of cabinet from Foreign Minister Vicente Ráo and some time later as head of the main administration department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he was last promoted to Ministerial Counselor First Class in 1955.

On November 12, 1955, Aguinaldo Boulitreau Fragoso became ambassador to Panama and remained there until September 2, 1958. He then succeeded Marcos Tancredo Borges da Fonseca as ambassador in Argentina in 1958 and held this position until 1963, whereupon Luís Leivas Bastian Pinto his successor there. In 1961 he was also a delegate to the VII General Assembly of the Pan American Institute for Geography and History in Buenos Aires . After returning to Brazil in 1963, he became Secretary General for Foreign Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In this function he was during the tenure of President João Goulart during the absence of João Augusto de Araújo Castro between August and September 1963, from October to November 1963 and between March and April 1964 acting Foreign Minister several times. During this time he also served as President of the Political Planning Commission. Shortly after the beginning of the military dictatorship , he became ambassador to Portugal on June 25, 1964 and remained in this post until 1966. On June 25, 1966 , he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique . He was then a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Supreme Advisory Board of the Superintendentur for the Development of Northeast Brazil SUDENE (Superintendência do Desenvolvimento do Nordeste) .

Then Fragoso became ambassador to Venezuela on July 11, 1967 and was accredited as such as ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago until 1969 . He last became ambassador to Switzerland on February 27, 1970 and held this position until March 13, 1972.

From his marriage to Corina Ifigênia Pessoa the son João Carlos Pessoa Fragoso emerged, who was also ambassador several times.

Web link

• Aguinaldo Boulitreau Fragoso in the Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil (CPDOC) of the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)